| Thanksgiving 1. (n.) The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. 2. (n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. Thesaurus Entries Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, acknowledgment, aid prayer, appeal, beadroll, beads, benediction, beseechment, bidding prayer, blessing, breviary, chaplet, cognizance, collect, communion, contemplation, credit, crediting, devotions, entreaty, grace, hymn, impetration, imploration, intercession, invocation, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, paean, petition, praise, prayer, prayer of thanks, prayer wheel, recognition, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thank offering, thank-you, thanks |